DENVER -- Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry will stop in Colorado Sunday and plans a speech in Denver on Monday.

Kerry, who was born in Colorado, will address the public at 9:45 a.m. Monday at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Campaign officials said 800 tickets will be sold for the event but had not released how they would be distributed or how much they would cost.

Kerry will be "sharing with voters his plan to make America stronger at home and more respected throughout the world," according to his campaign. He will be joined at the Denver event by his Colorado campaign state chair Gary Hart, and co-chairs Rep. Diana DeGette, Rep. Mark Udall and former state senator Ed Perlmutter.

Kerry's visit follows a Denver visit by President George W. Bush on Tuesday, where he raised more than $2 million for his campaign during a private fund-raiser.

Polls show Kerry trails Bush by five or six percentage points in Colorado.

The state is one of 19 targeted in Kerry's $25 million television ad campaign, which in Colorado stresses that he was born at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora. Kerry spent $1 million on advertising in Colorado in May.

Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore by 10 percentage points in Colorado in 2000. Bill Clinton won the state in the 1992.